Anne-Marie Brady, from University of Canterbury, NZ, who praised the Propaganda Ministry of the Chinese Government for adopting western marketing techniques for shaping public opinion. Her books on China, may be of interest.

Jing Wang, MIT, with an incisive analysis of scope for new media for the 2008 Olympics. Her analysis of the role of 3G phones and MMS was the best I have heard. Also she described "digital coupons" as an interesting way to connect e-business to bricks and mortar stores and HiPiHi.com as a SecondLife type system with more scope for commerce. Her new book Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture, and other books on China may also be of interest.